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CABINET FOLDING BEDSTEAD. No. 248,515. Patented Oct. 18,1881.

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CABINET FOLDING BEDSTEAD.

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'NrTED STATES PATENT CABINET FOLDING BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,515, dated October 18, 1881.

Application filed July 23,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID D. SHUPE, a citizen of the United States, resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinet Folding Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my invention in cabinet form. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same in a partially unfolded condition; Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same in bedstead form. and Fig. 4. is a perspective of the stationary head-board.

My invention has relation to cabinet folding bedsteads, and has for its object to provide such articles with a stationary head-board so constructed and arranged in relation to the folding sections that the latter may be opened to form a bed and closed into a cabinet without necessitating the screwing or fastening of the head-board to the wall or floor of the apartment wherein such devices are designed to be located, thereby obtaining a movable cabinet folding bedstead having a stationary headboard.

Heretofore such bedsteads, when provided with stationary head-boards, had the latter so constructed that they had to be screwed or otherwise fastened to the wall of the room in which the bedsteads were placed, in order that the manipulations incident to converting the cabinet into a bedstead, or vice versa, might be effected, the result whereof was that said de vices were confined to one fixed location and could not be moved from one part of the room to another when at any time it was necessary or desirable to do so. Not only that, but the walls to which the head-boards were secured were defaced by the insertion of the fasteningscrews thereinto, and in time, owing to the jarring occasioned by the opening and closing of the folding bed=sections, such screws would become loosened in their bearings, and the head-boards were liable to fall away from their fastenings. When such accident occurred the parts of the bedstead would be more or less damaged, and for the time bein g would be in a condition incapable of use.

My invention is designed to avoid such disadvantages; and to the accomplishmentof that end I construct the stationary head-board with forwardly-projecting feet placed at each lower corner thereon. One of the folding bed-sections and the head-board are so connected together by a bar hinged to each of said parts that the legs of said section rest upon the feet of the head-board, while the legs of the other section find their bearing upon the floor, whereby a movable cabinet folding bedstead having a stationary head-board is produced in which the latter is held upright by said feet and the weight of the folding section resting thereon, said feet also serving as ways or guides for the legs of the section hinged to the head-board to run upon when said section is moved to effect the cabinet and bedstead changes.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents a head-board of any suitable design or construction. At each of the lower corners thereof is secured a foot, a, which projects forwardly from said head-board. Said feet rest upon the floor or ground, thereby imparting to such structure a comparatively tirm and steady position, which is not liable to be easily upset or caused to fall down, either accidentally or otherwise.

13 B represent the folding sections, which, when closed together, form a cabinet, and when opened form a bedstead. Such sections are each provided with legsG C, respectively, and D D are the brace-rods between said legs and sections. Said parts are constructed substantially as shownin myformer patent dated March 29, 1881,No. 239,563, and need nottherefore be more particularly described. The legs 0 O of sections B B are provided with rollers or casters 0 '0, respectively. The legs 0 rest upon the feet a a of the head-board, while the legs U G find their support on the floor or ground.

Fis a bar, hinged atfto the head-board and atf to the section B.

The operation is as follows: Said parts being arranged in cabinet form, as shown in Fig. 1, the weight of the cabinet falls upon the feet a of the headboard, and the latter is thereby held rigidly in an upright position. When it is desirable to do so, said cabinet, with the headboard, may be moved from one part of the room to another part thereof, or from room to room 5 or, when it is necessary to remove the same from one house to another, it is merely picked up bodily and carried to its destination. Itit is desired to convert the same into abedstead, the section B is taken hold of and pulled outwardly and downwardly. The section B, following therewith and controlled by the'hinged connecting-bar F, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2, moves outwardly and then upwardly into a horizontal position, itslegs c travelingon their rollers on the feet a. The latter are of sutlicientlength to accommodate the traveling of said legs thereon throughout theentire length of their movement. The weight of section B thereby falls upon said feet and assists the latter in holdingthe head-board in a fixed and solid position during such movement of the sections. To return the latter to cabinet form the section B is moved in a direction the reverse of that above described, whereupon the bar F acts to lower the section B to a vertical position. Its legs 0 traveling back upon the feet a, the weightof said section still falls upon said feet and aids the latter in retaining the head-board in position, as above set forth.

It will thus be seen that I obtain a movable cabinet folding bedstead which has a stationary head-board. Such head-board, not requiring to be fastened to the wall or floor, permits the entire device to be readily portable from location to location.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. A cabinet folding bedstead composed of two folding bed-sections, hinged to each other, and having folded legs,a. stationary head-board, and intermediate hinged connection between one of said sections and head-board, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a cabinet folding bedstead, of a stationary head-board having forward] y-projectin g feet, of folding sections, one of which is hinged to said head-board and resting on said feet, said sections being provided with folding legs, substantially as shown and described.

3. A stationary head-board for folding cabinet bedsteads, provided with feet or ways a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a cabinet folding bedstead, the combination of the following elements a stationary head-board provided with forwardly-projecting feet a, folding bed-sections provided with folding or movable legs, and a hinged connectingbar between one of said sections and the headboard, substantially as shown and described.

DAVID D. SHUPE.

\Vitnesses:

A. VAN WYoK Bonn, J. DANIEL EBY. 

